Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
Awarded forOutstanding Continuing or Single Voice-Over Performance in a Series or Special
CountryUnited States
Presented byAcademy of Television Arts & Sciences
First awarded1992
Last awarded2013
Currently held byLily Tomlin,
An Apology to Elephants (2013)
Websiteemmys.com

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance is a Creative Arts Emmy Award given out by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. It is awarded to a performer for an outstanding "continuing or single voice-over performance in a series or a special." Prior to 1992, voice-actors could be nominated for their performance in the live action acting categories. The award was first given in 1992 when six voice actors from The Simpsons shared the award. From 1992 to 2008, it was a juried award, so there were no nominations and there would be multiple or no recipients in one year. In 2009, the rules were changed to a category award, with five nominees.

Usually, the winner is a voice actor from an animated show, but some narrators of live action shows have won such as Keith David in 2005 and 2008. No winner was named in 1996 or 2007.

Nine voice actors from The Simpsons have won a combined 14 Emmys. Of those, Dan Castellaneta has won four and Hank Azaria has won three. Ja'net Dubois has won two for The PJs, Keith David has won two for his narration of various documentaries and Maurice LaMarche has won two for Futurama. Voice actors from shows on Fox have won 17 of 27 awards.

In 2014, the category was separated into two categories – Outstanding Narrator and Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. As with longform and reality, this split acknowledges and accommodates a general industry uptrend in the distinctly different achievements that are VO narration and VO character performance.

Rules

While most of the Primetime Emmy Awards choose winners from a group of nominees, the award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance was juried from 1992 to 2008. Each entrant was screened by a panel of Academy of Television Arts and Sciences members from the Animation branch as well as members of the Acting branch with voiceover credits. Potential nominees had to submit a DVD that contained an edited version of a single episode and a picture of the character(s) that were voiced. Submissions that were less than 30 minutes had to be edited to be shorter than five minutes; entries longer than 30 minutes were edited to be less than ten. Prior to 2007, the maximum edited lengths were ten and fifteen minutes respectively. Each entrant with majority approval went on to a second panel. Emmy winners had to be unanimous choices of this second panel, except that for every 12 persons or fraction thereof on the panel, one "no" vote was allowed, except from the head of the panel.

In 2009, the Academy changed the award from a "juried" award to a "category", with six nominees and one winner.

Winners (1992–2008)

Year Winner Character(s) Series or special Network Ref.
1992 Nancy Cartwright Bart Simpson The Simpsons: "Separate Vocations" Fox
Dan Castellaneta Homer Simpson The Simpsons: "Lisa's Pony" Fox
Julie Kavner Marge Simpson The Simpsons: "I Married Marge" Fox
Jackie Mason Rabbi Krustofski The Simpsons: "Like Father, Like Clown" Fox
Yeardley Smith Lisa Simpson The Simpsons: "Lisa the Greek" Fox
Marcia Wallace Edna Krabappel The Simpsons: "Bart the Lover" Fox
1993 Dan Castellaneta Homer Simpson, Barney Gumble, Abraham Simpson and other characters The Simpsons: "Mr. Plow" Fox
1994 Christopher Plummer Narrator Madeline Family
1995 Jonathan Katz Dr. Katz Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Comedy Central
1996 No Emmy awarded in this category
1997 Jeremy Irons Siegfried Sassoon The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century: "War Without End" PBS
Rik Mayall Mr. Toad The Wind in the Willows Family
1998 Hank Azaria Apu Nahasapeemapetilon The Simpsons Fox
1999 Ja'net Dubois Mrs. Florence Avery The PJs Fox
2000 Seth MacFarlane Stewie Griffin Family Guy Fox
Julie Harris Susan B. Anthony Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony PBS
2001 Hank Azaria Comic Book Guy, Apu, Carl Carlson, Lou,
Chief Wiggum and Moe Szyslak
The Simpsons: "Worst Episode Ever" Fox
Ja'net Dubois Mrs. Florence Avery The PJs: "Let's Get Ready To Rumba" The WB
2002 Peter Macon Narrator Animated Tales of the World: "John Henry, the Steel Driving Man" HBO
Pamela Adlon Bobby Hill, Clark Peters and Chane Wassanasong King of the Hill: "Bobby Goes Nuts" Fox
2003 Hank Azaria Moe Szyslak, Carl Carlson, Chief Wiggum,
Apu, Johnny Tightlips, Bumblebee Man and Cletus
The Simpsons: "Moe Baby Blues" Fox
2004 Dan Castellaneta Krusty the Clown, Homer Simpson, Abraham Simpson,
Groundskeeper Willie, Sideshow Mel, Barney and Itchy
The Simpsons: "Today I Am A Clown" Fox
2005 Keith David Narrator Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson PBS
2006 Kelsey Grammer Sideshow Bob The Simpsons: "The Italian Bob" Fox
2007 No Emmy awarded in this category
2008 Keith David Narrator The War: "A Necessary War" PBS

Winners and nominations (2009–2013)

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).

Year Nominee Character(s) Series or Special Episode Network
2009
(61st)
Dan Castellaneta Homer Simpson The Simpsons "Father Knows Worst" Fox
Ron Rifkin Narrator American Masters "Jerome Robbins: Something To Dance About" PBS
Seth Green Various Robot Chicken "Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II" Cartoon Network
Seth MacFarlane Peter Griffin Family Guy "I Dream of Jesus" Fox
Harry Shearer Mr. Burns, Smithers, Kent Brockman and Lenny The Simpsons "The Burns and the Bees"
Hank Azaria Moe Szyslak "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe"
2010
(62nd)
Anne Hathaway Princess Penelope The Simpsons "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" Fox
H. Jon Benjamin Sterling Archer Archer "Mole Hunt" FX
Dave Foley Wayne Prep & Landing ABC
Seth Green Cobra Commander, Movie Narrator and Robot Chicken Nerd Robot Chicken "Cannot Be Erased, So Sorry" Cartoon Network
Hank Azaria Apu and Moe Szyslak The Simpsons "Moe Letter Blues" Fox
Dan Castellaneta Grampa Simpson and Homer Simpson "Thursdays with Abie"
2011
(63rd)
Maurice LaMarche Lrrr, Orson Welles Futurama "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" Comedy Central
Bob Bergen Porky Pig The Looney Tunes Show "Jailbird And Jailbunny" Cartoon Network
Dan Castellaneta Homer Simpson, Krusty the Clown, Barney Gumble, Louie The Simpsons "Donnie Fatso" Fox
Seth Green Batman, Cobra Commander, Judge, Light Cycle Driver, Newscaster, Robot Chicken Nerd, Teenager, Venger Robot Chicken "Catch Me If You Kangaroo Jack" Cartoon Network
Christopher Plummer Narrator Moguls and Movie Stars "The Birth of Hollywood" TCM
Brenda Strong Mary Alice Young Desperate Housewives "Come on Over for Dinner" ABC
2012
(64th)
Maurice LaMarche Clamps, Donbot, Hyperchicken, Calculon, Hedonismbot, Morbo Futurama "The Silence of the Clamps" Comedy Central
Hank Azaria Moe Szyslak, Duffman, Mexican Duffman, Carl, Comic Book Guy, Chief Wiggum The Simpsons "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" Fox
Dan Povenmire Doctor Doofenshmirtz Disney Phineas And Ferb: Across The 2nd Dimension Disney
Rob Riggle Noel Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice ABC
Brenda Strong Mary Alice Young Desperate Housewives "Give Me the Blame" / "Finishing the Hat"
Kristen Wiig Lola The Looney Tunes Show "Double Date" Cartoon Network
2013
(65th)
Lily Tomlin Narrator An Apology to Elephants HBO
Seth MacFarlane Brian Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Peter Griffin Family Guy "Brian's Play" Fox
Alex Borstein Lois Griffin and Tricia Takanawa "Lois Comes Out Of Her Shell"
Seth Green Abin Sur, Aquaman, Batman, Green Arrow, Martian Manhunter, Nerd and Robin Robot Chicken "Robot Chicken DC Comics Special" Cartoon Network
Sam Elliott Narrator "Hurtled From A Helicopter Into A Speeding Train"
Bob Bergen Porky Pig The Looney Tunes Show "We’re In Big Truffle"

Multiple wins

Wins include Outstanding Narrator and Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance

4 wins

3 wins

2 wins


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